Improved support por gar-seat backs



G. HIGGINSON.

- Car Seat.

Patented Aug. 4, 1868.

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GEORGE HIGG IN SON,OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY LettersPatent No. 80,736, dated August 4, 1868.

IMPROVED SUPPORT FOR GAR-SEAT BACKS.

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Be it'known that I, GEORGE HIGGIN SON, of Newark, in the county of Essex, and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and improved Elastic Support for Car-Seat Backs; and I do hereby declare that the following is a. full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of my invention. Figure 2 is a detail sectional view of the same. Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to a new device for supporting the arms of car-seat backs, and for receiving the,

shock when the same are reversed. I

The invention consists in the use of bolts or blocks, which are resting upon spring or other cushions, and which are secured to the sides of the seat, so that the arms to which the back is secured may rest upon the upper ends of these elastic supports, and may, if the back is reversed and suddenly let fall, find a yielding support.

Heretofore, whe'nthe seat was thus reversed by careless persons, the supporting-pins, or the arms on which the chair-back swings, were frequently broken, to avoid which. is the object of my invention.

A, in the drawing, represents a chair-back swinging on arms a a, which are pivoted to the sides, 6, of the seat B, or, as is often done, at one side to the caseof the car. I V

The supports of the seats are blocks 0 G, which fit into sockets or cases D D, and restnpon rubber or other springs, E, as is clearly shown in fig. 2. .The sockets D are screwed or otherwise fastened to the inside of the car, as in fig. 1, and to the sides, 6, as indicated by dotted linesin fig. 1.

If desired, the blocks 0 may have screws or pins, 0, projecting through slots in the cases, as shown, to regulate the up-and-down play of the blocks.

The blocks 0 may be so shaped on their upper end as to form good supports for the arms.

The invention is also applicable to all other swing-seat backs.

Having thus described my invention,I claim as new articles of manufacture, and desire to secure the same by Letters Pate'nt- I 1. The elastic bearings, consisting of the spring E and sliding blocks 0 C, for car and other seat-backs, made and operating substantially as herein shown and described.

2. The blocks C C, when combined with the springs E and cases D, and when having pins 0, that fit into the slotted or grooved cases, substantially as herein shown and described.

' GEORGE HIGGINSON.

Witnesses:

A. V.- BRIEssN, WM. WRIGHT. 

